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Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying,
Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites. 2 Rise
and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the
father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the
daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And may my God bless thee,
and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings
of nations. 4 And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraam,
even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy
sojourning, which God gave to Abraam. 5 So Isaac sent away Jacob, and
he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the
brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau. 6 And Esau saw that
Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he
blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and [that] he charged
him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the
Chananites; 7 and [that] Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother,
and went to Mesopotamia of Syria. 8 And Esau also having seen that the
daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac, 9 Esau went to
Ismael, and took Maeleth the daughter of Ismael, the son of Abraam,
the sister of Nabeoth, a wife in addition to his [other] wives. 10 And
Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into
Charrhan. 11 And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun
had gone down; and he took [one] of the stones of the place, and put
it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place, 12 and dreamed,
and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven,
and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.